AD mobile users have no permisssions when not connected to network

Question

I am the IT Manager in a Windows Server 2003 shop using Active Directory. I am trying to integrate a MacBook just purchased with Leopard 10.5.2. The computer is sucessfully bound to the AD domain. I created a local user account on the machine, and while connected to the company network, an active directory user. When the AD user logs in and the machine is connected to the company network, all is fine: the user's home directory is automatically connected and all application prefs and local folders are available.
However, when away from the company network, loging in with the mobile user's credentials gets a desktop, but no permissions to that user's own local folders:no Dock prefs, no documents folder, no downloads folder, no nothing. Only internet access if a connection is available. Suppossedly credentials are cached on the MacBook, as that option was selected when I created the account. Is this behavior correct?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

tmoore41 wrote:
Ok, I'll give it a try just to see what happens. I am not sure that this is such a good solution however:
1) I am not sure that I have permission to redistribute deployJava.js with my project. What is the license for it? When I download the script it has been stripped of all comments.Good question. I had to chase up the webmaster of mindprod.com to alter his pages to reflect that the preferred method was to hot-link to Sun's own script. It never occured to me to question that Sun might not allow not hot-linking to the script. Now I go looking over their documentation on the script, it is not really clear.
The documentation I was looking through, can be found at the [Java™ Rich Internet Applications Deployment Advice|http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/jweb/deployment_advice.html] page.
2) How can I ensure that the installation methods will be kept up to date If I 'hard code' the deployment methods by distributing them myself? You can't. That is one downside of using a copy of the script.
.. Are there specific version dependencies within the deployJava.js script that need to be updated once in a while? Not that I know of. Though Sun might upload changes to correct bugs in various browsers.
I am guessing that one of the design elements of the 'deployJava.js' script is that since it is on a sun server it can be kept up to date over time. This cannot happen once it is frozen in to my distribution.Well summed up.
It would be nice if deployJava.js checked if the java install was adequate, and if not then went out to the network to get instructions on what to do next. It is too hard for me to tell what is going on in the whitespaced-stripped file however. Any internal documentation on what deployJava.js does?See what you can figure from the link above, and related documentation.